Prayer is talking with God about what we are doing together.
DALLAS WILLARDTo allow lust (or strong desires) to govern our life is to exalt our will over God’s.
More Dallas Willard Quotes
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Two ways of thinking: Human kingdom and human cleverness or God’s kingdom and God’s cleverness.
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Jesus is actually looking for people he can trust with his power.
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The effect of standing before God by welcoming him before us will be the transformation of our entire life.
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Almost everything worth doing in human life is very difficult in its early stages and the good we are aiming at is never available at first, to strengthen us when we seem to need it most.
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Your mind will really talk to you when you begin to deny fulfillment to your desires, and you will find how subtle and shameless it is.
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It is the responsibility of every Christ-centred follower to carve out a satisfying life under the loving rule of God or else sin will start to look good.
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Find a person who has embraced anger, and you will find a person with a wounded ego.
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There is no problem in human life that apprenticeship to Jesus cannot solve.
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You cannot trust Jesus in areas in which you don’t think him competent.
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As Augustine say clearly, God being God offends human pride. If God is running the universe and has first claim on our lives, guess who isn’t running the universe and does not get to have things as they please.
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Fasting confirms our utter dependence upon God by finding in Him a source of sustenance beyond food.
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If we do not make formation in Christ the priority, then we’re just going to keep on producing Christians that are indistinguishable in their character from many non-Christians.
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Most problems in contemporary churches can be explained by the fact that members have never decided to follow Christ.
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The will is transformed by experience, not information.
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There is no avoiding the fact that we live at the mercy of our ideas This is never more true than with our ideas about God.
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